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It's uh, it's a great day for March madness already,

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the madness has begun. Hopefully you've been enjoying the games

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us at ESPN the Fan Real quick, Why don't we

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just get into the scoreboard update. Ohio State falls to

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the big twelve ibuit TCU in that eight nine matchup

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in the East Region, first round of sixty four game.

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We just had a big upset of five twelve ups

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at high Point who's been on a tear to end

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their season. They put up eighty three versus Wiskanson and

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knockoff the number five seed Wisconsin Badgers. They send them

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back in eighty three to eighty two. The last bucket,

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the game winning bucket beautiful knocked off South Florida eighty

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three seventy nine McNeice and Vanderbilt currently with about one

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forty five left in the first half, thirty three to

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thirty five. Vandy up to right now in Duke is

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down eleven at halftime to see one sixteen. I mean,

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has happened very few times in NC DOUBLEA bracketology history.

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So guys, we're gonna get into all the knooks and

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granny today. We'll keep you up to date on the

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NC DOUBLEA tournament. We're gonna talk a ton of Cougar basketball,

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Cougar football as well, So keep us tuned in, keep

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us locked in. We're gonna keep it loaded full of information.

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Why don't we fire it up the ESPN the fans

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Speaker 1: Esp at the band dot Com.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's welcome into the show in studio right textape.

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By the way, Ronald three minute Weaver, he's out, but

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he will be joining goes later on to the show

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from Shytown. Let's welcome in, Brett always bringing the hammer

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Hamton show. Has the madness begun enough for you? Hasn't

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been crazy enough for him?

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Speaker 5: I love March man like.

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Speaker 6: There's there's no other superlative, There's no other adjective like

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the word hughes. I love Mars watching high point goal

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shot for shot at the end of that game, watching

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Sienna like look fairly competent against Duke. My brackets aren't

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even busted, by the way.

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Speaker 7: But you know what, there are no users in March

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because we no matter how bad your bracket is, you

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get to watch the tournament. And honestly, I could care

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games are good, and four or five games in so

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Speaker 2: They are very very good. Ladies and gentlemen producing for today.

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Speaker 3: Salt Lake, Ben, I am doing absolutely fantastic. The weather

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Speaker 5: Cinderella is alive.

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Speaker 3: Despite what some talking heads over at the Big Company say,

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Cinderella is alive. Just let me just throw this at you,

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just to tell you how alive Cinderella is. Chase Johnston

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was the player who hit the game winner for High

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bucket of the year. That's incredible, absurd, that is incredible.

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Speaker 7: You cannot script this, Like if you wrote a movie

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like that, they'd be like, hey, we can't make the

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guy who's never made a shot in the season. We

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can't make him make it because like why would he

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Speaker 5: Like, you cannot script this.

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Speaker 2: It was this like a special play that they had

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Speaker 7: So what happened was Wisconsin, Wisconsin's up one. I think

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it was like there was like thirty five seconds, so

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Speaker 5: Once show.

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Speaker 7: That may be the case, but even still, I don't

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know why. I don't know what happened. Wisconsin goes for

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a shot, it gets blocked. He just be lines to

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Speaker 7: Is on the back of his shoes is a reference

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to the parable of Jesus talking about finding the one

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he is? He's ninety nine, and so the ratnessler's on

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the call and he's like, and he just got the one.

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Speaker 5: It was really cool.

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in the regular season. He's like, all these big teams,

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Speaker 5: They didn't want to play Miami Ohio.

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Speaker 7: Well guess what you get to the tournament, you better

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to us and we're not even there, like this is

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Speaker 2: It started, and uh, everyone's bracket is officially busted, most

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Speaker 5: I do have two perfect brackets left.

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Speaker 2: You have two?

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Speaker 3: I made six?

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people who do like the full limit and they go

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Speaker 5: I only make one, but I can respect such. I

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and BYU is gonna win it all?

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Speaker 1: I love it. Man.

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Speaker 2: Well, hopefully you guys are enjoying March Madness. Appreciate all

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the Cougar fans and Cougar Country. Tune it in. We're

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gonna prep you for that BYU Texas matchup. We got

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though Kevin Young I had some media availabilities. Sound We're

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the Texas Longhorns. We'll welcome in breaking day CEO of

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Ronald of the three Man Weaver will give us a

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little inside of report three forty five talking to BYU

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basketball at three forty five. Evan Johnson interview with Ronald

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So the number eleven Texas longharn Longhorns battling the number

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six b way Cougars in this first round matchup in

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the West re Regional of the NCAA Tournament. It's gonna

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be Thursday night, right five, twenty five tip off, Mountain Time,

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and BYU a slight favorite in the in this game.

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But Texas did win its playing game in a very

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thrilling fashion. Came down to the wire at least the

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last three to four minutes, sixty eight to sixty six

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against that NC State Wolfpack team that can shoot the three,

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a top ten three point shooting team in in college basketball,

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They still ended up shooting thirty eight percent in that game.

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season long from the three point line. They're like ranked

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three hundredth in college basketball defending the three. Somehow they

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stymied the wolf Pack. So the BYU Cougars are twenty

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three and eleven. Most recently they lost to the Houston Cougars.

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to at worst get to an Elite eight at best,

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and become the national champions. So I feel like after

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they're much more optimistic about bau's chances. By the way,

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the Longhords have lost three of the last five games,

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while the Cougars have won three of their last five games.

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showing up showing out. And BA holds a five to

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two all time series lead over Texas. Last time these

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Texas eighty four, seventy two and twenty twenty four. That

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fifty seven point five, so it could very well be

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a high flying, high scoring type of game for the

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and Mark Pope said, this is not who we are,

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this is not good sportsmanship.

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Speaker 7: Some other people it also at Yu whose names I

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won't Mention also had that same thought.

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit over the top in my opinion,

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but I get it. We're staying we want to be

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on brand. We gotta be kind, we gotta be christ like.

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Speaker 5: I was doing horns down any different than doing the

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you down.

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Speaker 2: Like.

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Speaker 5: That's a legitimate argument, I think.

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Speaker 2: Because Utah is the rival Texas and the rest of

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the Big twelve, we're trying to ingratiate ourselves and we're

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not trying to like be the thorn in everybody's side

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and have like a bunch of good plays that are

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being thrown at us. We're trying to remember we were

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stiff armed for almost a century from the power structure,

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decades upon decades of stiff arming, and some would say

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religious bigotry or even institutional bigotry. Institutions if ire learned,

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didn't want anything to do with BYU. The only individuals

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that wanted anything to do with BOU were the athletic departments. Uh,

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and they said, hey, the eighties were like, yeah, we

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want them to come here because we're going to sell tickets.

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That's it. So that being said, that's where we stand

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in this game. A little preview. Let's get into some

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of the sound bites brought to you by Complete Circuit Electric,

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Complete Circuit Electric UTAH dot com Kevin Young were These

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were his opening remarks in preparation for this first round

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matchup versus the Longhorns.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Just excited to be back in this tournament. And

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I've been pretty vocal about how much I enjoyed this

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tournament just the way it captivates, UH, the whole country,

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and feel fortunate to be here. Portland's been great to

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us so far, just as a host city. I know

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our guys are excited. You know, how had a you know,

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a long night obviously after figuring out who we were

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going to play, but feel good about our preparation and

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excited for the game tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Sounds excited, is he is? He just going stock with

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us here? Like you know, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 7: Mellow, mellow bro right melos not even a melos, Probably

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higher than what.

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Speaker 2: He felt like in that right, excited, very excited. You've

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talked about how you're on this third iteration of this

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BYU team with all the increase of sustained What do

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the players hang on to in order to get to

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this third iteration and find success.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've talked about it before, but I think

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just uh, you know, I'm big. I'm big this time

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of year on you can't just make stuff up. You

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have to rely on the things that you've done through

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the throughout the course.

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Speaker 2: Of the season.

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Speaker 1: With our team right now, you know, it's that that

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season's been short just in terms of who the iteration

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of this team that we're playing. And so I think

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the things that they've sunk in their teeth into are

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are things that allow you to win a post season,

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which is you know, defense, which is rebounding, you know,

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which is playing together offensively. That's what this group's found

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some success with. And so those are the things that

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we're trying to carry over into.

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Speaker 2: The tournament, trying to you know, you have to build

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up confidence through experience, and experience is is earned right.

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They've earned, I think the right to be in the

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NCAA tournament. They've earned the you know, the great thing

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about the steaming is like they had a tremendous amount

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of success early on, and then they had significant adversity,

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and now they're back on kind of the success training.

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I think they're probably very grateful for what they've gone through.

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And I think there's a renewed sense of urgency. We

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saw that in the Big twelve tournament.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think that's a really intelligent question by

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whoever asked it, Like, this is not the same team

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that we watched four months ago, This is not the

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same team that we watched.

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Speaker 5: Three weeks ago. Yeah, this is a a new iteration

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of that team.

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Speaker 6: And so.

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Speaker 2: You know, like.

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Speaker 5: You never know what you're gonna be, what who you

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are going into the tournament.

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Speaker 7: Like if you cover and I think you don't get

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that privilege if you cover college basketball at a national level.

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Speaker 5: It's really hard to track an identity of a team.

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But when you track a team like we do.

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Speaker 7: Like it's really easy to see the very small incremental

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ups and downs and new identity and changing And obviously

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it's easy to track that when you have a team

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who loses key players and things like that. But it's

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not about who were you in December? Who you in November?

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Like who are you in March? Where are you trending?

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Are you hot right now? And this is I think,

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oddly enough, this might be the best version of BYU

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we've gotten all season.

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Speaker 5: And I mean no disrespect to Richie or Dawson Baker.

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Speaker 7: Had those guys played the full season, like, I think

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they would be really good right now. But without those

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guys they struggled. But sometimes through the struggle you find

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out who you are. Right Sometimes through adversity you're forced

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to do things you never would have done when things

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were easy. And Ag kind of says that later in

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the media Availabilities we'll listen to. He was like, dude,

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high school was easy for me. It's like I didn't

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really I could get away with a lot of things

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because that was bigger, faster, and stronger than everybody else.

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And with BYU, it was like ky in your non

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Con you were better than pretty much every when you

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played outside of Yukon.

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Speaker 2: Got it because no one in non Con.

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Speaker 7: Is gonna be really as good as the Big Twelve

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unless you're playing a team like Yukon. And for the

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beginning of Big Twelve play when you had Richie Sonders

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and you guys could just drop one hundred points like

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it wasn't a thing.

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Speaker 5: You didn't have to learn how to play defense.

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Speaker 7: Losing Richie Saunders, you're like, okay, man, now we got

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to learn defense, and we have to find some leadership

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on the team. As we'll hear from Kennard Davis later,

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this is the best version of BYU that I think

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we've see and all season because they were forced to

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do things they never would have had to do otherwise.

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Speaker 5: And that's what makes me feel confident about tonight.

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Speaker 2: Love that breakdown from Brett always bringing the hammer hammer

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time show coach. Twenty two years ago, you were playing

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D two against Kannisas State in the Beach Belt Tournament.

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Speaker 5: Your brother is a is the.

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Speaker 2: Kennesaw sid and Kanasa, Kansas State's coach is an XBAU coach,

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an interim coach. Fast forward, you're the You're the coach

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at BAU, and your brother is now on your staff.

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You end up and you end up with Kennesaw in

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the same bracket as you in the NCAA tournament. Can

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you speak to a kind of your career or all

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of this kind of coming full circle?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean careers are especially in mind most of

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them are. There's minds of Windy Road. I think many

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of them are. There's no real straight lines to head

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coaching roles. Yeah, so it is kind of for one,

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I feel old that that was that long ago, But yeah,

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just I mean, basketball is a such a cool sport

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and and the things that you're able to do career wise,

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Like I said, well, you're weaving over here, weaving over there,

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and then to kind of have things. You know, just

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when I was walking through the tunnel, I saw the

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Kinnesas State you know name played up there. So you know,

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it's just it's cool and you know, it's it's just

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a lot of good memories. I think for me when

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I think back to like my playing days and and

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and seeing them now here and I'm here, it's just

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kind of a nostalgia.

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Speaker 2: Look this this is a basketball family. That's what stands

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out to me about k Why And they've been bald

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as life from the day they were probably born. That's

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what's so crazy about it. Like, look I look at

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my own family and like, you know, we're kind of diverse.

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There was musicians, there was athletes, right, there was a

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little bit of everything. We weren't like this like crital

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brand of like this is who we this is who

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we are, this is what we do. I don't know

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about your family.

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 7: That's how I got sisters in theater and you know,

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played sports and my dad played the guitar, Like, so

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I'm with you, Like I.

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Speaker 2: Like really do it.

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Speaker 7: Like we got percussionists. We're like on the love each other,

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that's the brand. But outside of that, like we're all

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very different each other. We're all we all support each other.

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We're a village.

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Speaker 2: We're our own little community anyway. But like the young

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family is, basketball is is life. Ball is life, and

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there's a lot of virtue in that, and that's how

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you get to you know, that's how you get to

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kind of elite status sometimes is when ball is live

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and you're you're willing to Like I don't know if

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they thought they were going to coach. I didn't know

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if they thought that they were gonna be in the

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s I d I didn't know if they you know,

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they wanted to play ball. And his brother, Justin, he

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was running tournaments recruiting and now he's the director of

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recruiting over b YU. But like, I don't think they

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they knew what they necessarily what path they were going

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to go. They just wanted to be in the basketball world,

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which is pretty cool.

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Speaker 7: But isn't that kind of just the underlying theme of life,

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Like your life never goes how you think it's going

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to Like I'm sure, I'm sure if you told Kevin

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Young four years ago, hey man, you're gonna be the

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head coach at b YU and you're gonna be coaching

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the number one player in America, You're gonna be the

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NCBA tournament and be like, dude, I'm in the NBA

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finals right now, Like why would I ever go to college?

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Cause your life just goes and bob's and weaves in

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ways that you never would have expected. Same with Justin Young,

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Like if you told him twenty years ago, hey, you

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and Kevin Young, he's gonna leave the NBA to come

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to BYU and you're gonna come with him.

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Speaker 5: And you guys gonna go grab the number one player

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in America. Like it's just.

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Speaker 7: It doesn't ever go. And it's not just for them,

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Like that's for you, that's for me. Like life just

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doesn't go how you think it goes. However, the successful

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people in life are the ones who say, Okay, that's fine,

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I can adjust. I'm not gonna be rigid and I

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have to go straight. I'll weave if I have to weave,

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or bob if I have to bob. And again you're

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seeing that success with Justin and Kevin. They love basketball,

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that's the underlying theme. However they have to do it

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to be a part of success in basketball. They'll do

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whatever it takes.

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Speaker 2: I think it's cool that, like everyone's in the basketball world. Yeah,

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really that's really intriguing to me. K Why what lessons

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can you take from last year's tournament, the run to

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the Sweet sixteen and this year?

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Speaker 1: Man? Well, I mean even like similar even to the

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NBA playoffs, Like you really just have to focus on

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what's in front of you. If you can't, I think

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that's the biggest and number one thing for me, just

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focusing on, you know, the task at hand and not

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worrying about you know what's to come. Uh that that

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that that that cost me in my NBA life. I

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think a playoff series or two where you're looking too

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far down the road, and even even within the game itself,

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you know, like that like the two games yesterday, you know,

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both teams probably felt that had a lead, felt really

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comfortable probably at one point, and then you know, you

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blink and they're about to lose the game. And so

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I think just a constant level of focus on the

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task at hand is super important. And and then kind

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of what I said earlier about you can't you can't

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make stuff up this time of year. I think you

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got to be really careful with that as a coach. Yeah,

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sure you might see some things on film at all

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if we did this that could take away their X,

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Y or Z. I think you gotta be super careful

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about doing that and just having the guys you know,

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trust in and what's gotten you to the point that

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you're at.

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00:23:15,079 --> 00:23:18,279
Speaker 2: Gotta trust what got you to the point where you're at.

478
00:23:18,319 --> 00:23:19,680
He said that now multiple times.

479
00:23:20,079 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 5: That's really interesting.

480
00:23:21,839 --> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 7: I wonder if there was a point either this season

481
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,119
or last season where they thought they saw weakness that

482
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,559
they felt like they could blow up and exploit and

483
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,920
it ended up backfiring on them because it wasn't necessarily

484
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,200
really an identity of who that team was.

485
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:35,920
Speaker 2: Because to your.

486
00:23:35,839 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 7: Point, we heard him say this this time, and I

487
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,839
believe last media availability he was like, you can't, you

488
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,519
can't look too much into something, which I think partially

489
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,119
is just part of March right, Like, it doesn't matter

490
00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:50,599
what your record is coming into the tournament. Everybody's playing

491
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,920
in a vacuum, everybody's starting, nobody has any wins until

492
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,039
you win. And so it's interesting that we've heard him

493
00:23:57,079 --> 00:23:59,039
say that now a couple of times. I'd love to

494
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,200
know what the game was that made him say that,

495
00:24:02,279 --> 00:24:04,559
and maybe he's always felt this way, maybe it was

496
00:24:04,559 --> 00:24:07,279
an NBA game, But it is really interesting we've heard

497
00:24:07,319 --> 00:24:09,799
that in back to back media availabilities from him. But

498
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,039
I think it's a key identity to this team, where,

499
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,160
like we heard him say before he started saying this,

500
00:24:16,079 --> 00:24:18,440
we got to be simple defensively and kind of just

501
00:24:18,599 --> 00:24:22,359
let him play ball. I think it works generally, and

502
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,519
it works for this team because when they were overdoing it,

503
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,880
which we heard him say, they were just stuck all

504
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,240
over the floor and they weren't necessarily assignment sound. So

505
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,839
I think what the tournament needs from you is what

506
00:24:36,079 --> 00:24:39,359
this team is built for, which is don't focus so

507
00:24:39,519 --> 00:24:39,920
much on the.

508
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 5: Game plan that you forget about playing ball, like just

509
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:43,720
go out there and hoop.

510
00:24:43,839 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 2: Which I think this team has that identity. I like

511
00:24:47,799 --> 00:24:51,000
that breakdown from Bread always bringing the hammer. What is

512
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:55,359
the identity? I think we, as AJ stated, we know

513
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,799
what our identity is now, and we're all believers that

514
00:24:57,839 --> 00:25:00,799
they know their identity. Any Big twelve can parisons, right,

515
00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:03,759
now k why de texts anything that can prep you properly.

516
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,039
Speaker 1: I mean they're I think from a personnel standpoint, yes,

517
00:25:09,319 --> 00:25:11,400
you know you can. You can kind of point to say, hey,

518
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,640
this guy plays like so and so. This guy plays

519
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,119
like so and so in our league, which we have.

520
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,119
I mean, the big fella, I mean might as well

521
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,880
be wearing an Arizona jersey in terms of how he plays.

522
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,640
And then the you know, the like Pope's a great

523
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,480
shooter off the dribble, and you know, he reminds me

524
00:25:28,519 --> 00:25:30,359
a little bit of Anderson just in terms of his

525
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,200
shooting piece. And then and then Mark and Swain. I

526
00:25:34,279 --> 00:25:36,599
mean there, I think Swain's a lot like Agent, to

527
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,599
be honest with you, just a big wing that can

528
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,839
do a little bit of everything. So I think we're

529
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,359
we're focusing it more. I think personnel, why style of play.

530
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,599
I mean they're you know, they they are what they

531
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,519
are in terms of posts of heavy ice, so heavy

532
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,400
trying to get to the foul line, that kind of thing.

533
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,960
So I don't know, stylistically I would compare him to

534
00:25:56,279 --> 00:25:58,799
necessarily anyone in in our league, but in terms of

535
00:25:58,839 --> 00:26:01,480
their personnel, you know, we've drawn those comparisons.

536
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:11,839
Speaker 2: So, Texas is a pretty good rebounding team, right, They're

537
00:26:12,519 --> 00:26:16,200
on par with probably who byu is and rebounding maybe

538
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,279
slightly better depending on the game. But they're they're pretty similar.

539
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,720
They're pretty similar in like their ability to rebound. They

540
00:26:21,759 --> 00:26:24,559
are long, they're athletic. I think the average you know,

541
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,000
about thirty eight rebounds per game or so, and they

542
00:26:28,039 --> 00:26:29,920
do a really good job on the offensive glasses where

543
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,559
they win like they're they're tenacious on that. We talked

544
00:26:32,559 --> 00:26:36,000
about that yesterday. So yeah, I think he's right. I

545
00:26:36,039 --> 00:26:37,559
think you kind of pick and choose kind of like

546
00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:41,759
certain players. But uh, you know what team that they

547
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,279
face this year as most akin to him? Like, which,

548
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:49,000
what's the worst three point defensive team that gets great

549
00:26:49,079 --> 00:26:54,359
offensive boards and easy putbacks second chance points? You know,

550
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,599
would it be? I don't know, would it be Kansas?

551
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,119
Is Kansas the you know, the closest thing to him?

552
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:02,559
I don't know, because you don't have a big seven

553
00:27:02,599 --> 00:27:05,759
putter either, Like it is a Hodgepodge, it's to Hodge.

554
00:27:05,799 --> 00:27:08,599
I don't think there's any one team that really aligns

555
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,359
with what would Boa has faced thus far this season.

556
00:27:11,519 --> 00:27:13,519
Speaker 5: Well, I feel like this is the game where you

557
00:27:13,599 --> 00:27:15,440
wish you had fos Tria.

558
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 7: Because remember last year when they played was it VCU

559
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,200
that had those two at like just I think they

560
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,119
were like seven too, like they were monsters. They weren't

561
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,640
necessarily super strong, but they were so long and we

562
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,839
were like, hey, how's Fu's gonna handle these guys.

563
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,079
Speaker 5: He's bigger, but they're longer, and Fus handled them. This

564
00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:36,480
might be the game where like you're like, man, we

565
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,759
think Fus could body up vocatitis.

566
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 2: You don't have that guy, so that we I we

567
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,480
have one back to the basket player on this team.

568
00:27:46,839 --> 00:27:47,400
You know who it is?

569
00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 5: I honestly don't. It's Aj Okay, Okay, yeah.

570
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 2: I was like, he's the only one that has a

571
00:27:54,559 --> 00:27:57,720
bag with his back to the basket. That's it. Nobody else,

572
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,799
do you feel like nobody.

573
00:28:00,799 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 7: I don't want to disrespect anybody because Hadeem Keba and

574
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,240
Abdul I'med are like good at what they're good at,

575
00:28:07,759 --> 00:28:09,720
But I don't get the vibe that like any of

576
00:28:09,799 --> 00:28:12,519
them can get their own shot, like they need.

577
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,279
Speaker 2: A putback, they need he can make his own shot

578
00:28:16,319 --> 00:28:18,079
if he really wanted to a little step back, little

579
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,200
right right, Yeah, no, I'm just talking about the big guys. Yeah, no,

580
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:21,839
big yeah.

581
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,039
Speaker 7: No. So I think are gonna have to play a

582
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,640
lot of like AJ on the end and then kick

583
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,880
out and see how that goes. Yeah, is gonna be

584
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,079
a problem, which it would be really interesting to like,

585
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,160
like you could do that with AJ.

586
00:28:37,279 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 2: You know who I should I should ask this to

587
00:28:39,559 --> 00:28:43,359
Dave Rose. They used to post up Kyle Collinsworth all

588
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,559
the time, he's a point guard. But then they would

589
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,759
just post them up all of a sudden in their

590
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,240
half court sets, and he would do work, you know

591
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,400
what I mean, he would do work a lot of times.

592
00:28:53,519 --> 00:28:56,240
AJ's taking the ball from the perimeter and then Kobe

593
00:28:56,599 --> 00:28:59,799
like from the start, backing guys down from the extended

594
00:28:59,799 --> 00:29:02,799
win and that's his back to the basket game and

595
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,160
he draws doubles, et cetera. He can do a lot

596
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,440
from there. I mean, he gets into the key there

597
00:29:07,559 --> 00:29:10,680
the elbow and and and you know his pomps and

598
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,400
ball fakes and things that nature. He's just tremendous. But

599
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,559
AP were in my ear a little bit. Did you

600
00:29:16,599 --> 00:29:17,759
want to chime in on this? Well?

601
00:29:17,839 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 3: I was, I was just gonna say on the big

602
00:29:20,279 --> 00:29:22,200
guys like I don't think any one of them can

603
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:22,720
get a shot.

604
00:29:22,759 --> 00:29:24,759
Speaker 2: The most likely would be Headen, but.

605
00:29:24,839 --> 00:29:27,599
Speaker 3: We just haven't seen anything from him. There no, because

606
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:31,599
the other two are just like Capa's CABA's mobile, but

607
00:29:31,759 --> 00:29:35,440
he can only do things at the rim, like Fido

608
00:29:35,559 --> 00:29:38,480
doesn't look mobile at all in my opinion. But but

609
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,039
in terms of this matchup, people forget like, like we've

610
00:29:42,079 --> 00:29:43,960
heard the narrative that once you get to the to

611
00:29:44,039 --> 00:29:45,839
the NCAA tournament, you don't have to deal with the

612
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,799
Big twelve physicality. It's like Texas was in the Big

613
00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:51,000
twelve two years ago and they're not.

614
00:29:51,359 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 5: Left because they were too soft, that's why.

615
00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 3: But I'm just saying they're not far removed from the

616
00:29:56,799 --> 00:29:59,480
Big twelve. It's not like we're getting a team that

617
00:29:59,559 --> 00:30:02,400
can't be physical. And so I think Bay needs to

618
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,279
be in the same mindset that they were in the

619
00:30:04,319 --> 00:30:06,319
Big Twelve, that you have to play through a lot

620
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,319
of contact and let the officials make the calls, don't

621
00:30:09,359 --> 00:30:10,200
go foulbating.

622
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's get to a few more soundbites. Try

623
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,799
to wrap this up with k Y. Let's get to

624
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,960
number six. You guys have played in a lot of

625
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,799
showcase standalade games. How do those kinds of situation prepare

626
00:30:22,839 --> 00:30:24,319
you for a high pressure moment like this?

627
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's just comfort in the known, you know.

628
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,319
I think that's part of the reason why we wanted

629
00:30:31,359 --> 00:30:33,200
to play in those games, just to give the guys

630
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,559
the experience of playing in you know, NBA Arena is

631
00:30:36,759 --> 00:30:40,240
a playing in in showcase type events where everybody's watching

632
00:30:40,279 --> 00:30:42,440
and talking about you, So it's not something that you

633
00:30:42,599 --> 00:30:45,920
have to you know, get used to already. I think

634
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,920
our guys have a have a comfort level, and that's

635
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,400
that's the beauty about guys like AJ and Rob. I

636
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,599
mean they obviously this is March Madness and it's a

637
00:30:53,759 --> 00:30:57,680
it's a it's a it's a one of a kind event.

638
00:30:58,599 --> 00:31:00,680
But those two guys in particular, they have been playing

639
00:31:00,759 --> 00:31:03,039
in big events their whole life, you know, and so

640
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:04,720
I think they're accustomed to it.

641
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 2: Like that. Yeah, I mean, I'd agree with that. We

642
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,000
don't have a we don't have a nervous team. The

643
00:31:12,079 --> 00:31:15,839
only nervous person on this team is Alexi and maybe

644
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,440
a deem or not a deem, uh be? Do that

645
00:31:20,559 --> 00:31:22,079
those are the two nervous.

646
00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 7: Nellies, right, Like I wouldn't call it nervous, But what

647
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,759
what adjective would you use to describe like the lack

648
00:31:31,839 --> 00:31:33,960
of offensive efficiency.

649
00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:35,559
Speaker 5: Early in games as a whole team.

650
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,279
Speaker 2: I think that's more. I think my opinion is that's

651
00:31:39,359 --> 00:31:41,200
more on the coaching staff than it is on the player.

652
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:47,480
I put lack of offensive efficiency on the coaching staff

653
00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:52,119
because their self scout was poor. That's my opinion. You're

654
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,240
not getting the looks that you've been practicing, like and

655
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,839
and look, when you're getting the looks that you've been practicing,

656
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,720
typically those those shots go down. Those shots go down

657
00:32:00,759 --> 00:32:03,000
because you've been getting those looks. So I think it's

658
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,200
a self scout issue. That's where like last year, you

659
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,359
saw Ky elevate his game. So I'm intrigued to see

660
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,799
if it changes, if that first half is a little

661
00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:18,559
bit different in this NCAA tournament, because there was a

662
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,240
big jump in offensive efficiency in the first half. Yegor

663
00:32:22,359 --> 00:32:26,519
started hitting right like everybody was getting looks that that

664
00:32:26,759 --> 00:32:29,319
that they liked and they felt comfortable with.

665
00:32:29,599 --> 00:32:30,319
Speaker 5: He saved.

666
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,039
Speaker 7: I don't know if saved something the right way or

667
00:32:33,119 --> 00:32:35,559
like he knew something that everybody else didn't.

668
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:35,799
Speaker 5: Don't.

669
00:32:35,839 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 7: I don't know what phrasing to use, but like that

670
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,920
is kind of how it felt, and that's kind of

671
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,759
how it's felt the last few games.

672
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 5: I could see that repeating itself this go around.

673
00:32:46,319 --> 00:32:50,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised, a little little holdback here

674
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,319
and there, trending when it matters most, Kevin, I was

675
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,599
we were walking around in the back. There were five

676
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,319
cameras around AJ. It feels like by was in a

677
00:33:01,359 --> 00:33:03,880
bit of a documentary. And by the way, a J

678
00:33:04,039 --> 00:33:07,200
hopped onto uh to Sports Center too.

679
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:07,599
Speaker 1: Yeah.

680
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,079
Speaker 7: Rob Wright was also on ESPN. I mean AJ did

681
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,359
like ten podcasts over the last week. I swear no,

682
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,720
I'm telling you, like remember my conspiracy theory.

683
00:33:16,519 --> 00:33:19,839
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean they want, they need, they want

684
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,759
Brigham to make a run. How do you make sure

685
00:33:22,799 --> 00:33:26,359
someone like AJ, who was super famous, processes everything around

686
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,440
him without being in the spotlight or maybe being distracted

687
00:33:29,519 --> 00:33:29,839
so much.

688
00:33:31,279 --> 00:33:34,319
Speaker 1: That's a great question, And I know the feeling when

689
00:33:34,319 --> 00:33:38,039
you're walking around with all the cameras everywhere. For me,

690
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:43,960
that was that's been a process of uh, just watching

691
00:33:44,519 --> 00:33:48,039
him in that in that spotlight, so to speak. I

692
00:33:48,119 --> 00:33:52,440
think he he's he handles it so well that I

693
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,400
don't worry about it. I mean, I had a conversation

694
00:33:55,559 --> 00:33:58,480
with his dad, you know, before the season even started

695
00:33:58,519 --> 00:34:01,079
about you know, how many how much noise was around

696
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,559
him and things of that nature. And you know, if

697
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,920
I felt like the cameras and this and that were

698
00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:09,920
a distraction, you know, I would be a little bit

699
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,639
more hesitant to welcome some of that stuff around. I think,

700
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:16,039
like I said, I think he handles it all really well.

701
00:34:18,519 --> 00:34:20,440
He's a mature kid, you know. And I don't even

702
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,039
call him a kid. He doesn't even seem like a kid.

703
00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:24,320
He seems like a grown man, honestly, And so just

704
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,599
the way he handles himself, I think gives me a

705
00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:30,159
lot of confidence that he's able to understand that that

706
00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:33,480
comes with the territory in terms of like the cachet

707
00:34:33,559 --> 00:34:36,440
that he has, but it never really affects his ability

708
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,119
to go out and perform in the game, and in

709
00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:39,960
some ways, I think it helps him perform better.

710
00:34:40,079 --> 00:34:46,559
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, look, I think it's probably

711
00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:50,079
a good thing that he is making the rounds, creating

712
00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:53,519
some hype, creating some spotlight. I think b Way's about

713
00:34:53,519 --> 00:34:56,400
to make a run. If they don't, I'll be severely

714
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:02,000
significantly disappointed. So I don't know how much of a

715
00:35:02,079 --> 00:35:04,800
distraction some of this it really is for Aj and

716
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,159
his playmaking ability. I think for others, maybe for him,

717
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,280
I don't think. So we're gonna go to break. We'll

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Speaker 2: Before we get into this segment, let's give you a

748
00:36:52,119 --> 00:36:56,800
little scoreboard update. Duke is only down five with seven

749
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,039
fifty three left in the second half versus CNC that

750
00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:03,039
has been up by double digits throughout most of the game,

751
00:37:03,079 --> 00:37:05,079
so they can have started in. Duke is making their

752
00:37:05,119 --> 00:37:08,559
way back, making this a game, So watch out for

753
00:37:08,639 --> 00:37:12,880
that one sixteen seed that upset. It's only happened a

754
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,840
few times in BA or excuse me, in bracketology history,

755
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,360
so that could be one. I think Duke's gonna pull

756
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:20,639
this off. I think they're gonna.

757
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 5: Figure it out.

758
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:25,199
Speaker 2: But something to watch. McNeice the twelve seed versus number

759
00:37:25,199 --> 00:37:28,559
five seed Vanderbilt. McNeese is only down three with fourteen

760
00:37:28,639 --> 00:37:30,920
fifty nine left in the second half. Forty five to

761
00:37:31,039 --> 00:37:34,360
forty two. Michigan State up twelve to eight versus North

762
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,679
Dakota State. That's in the first half, thirteen thirty three

763
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,039
left in that first half. Arkansas skunk in the Hawaii

764
00:37:41,159 --> 00:37:44,119
Rainbow Warriors right now, eleven to zero. That's still in

765
00:37:44,159 --> 00:37:47,199
the first fifteen to fifty four left. TCU ended up

766
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,639
knocking off Ohio State sixty six sixty four in that

767
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,960
nine to eight matchup. Nebraska destroyed Troy in the four

768
00:37:54,960 --> 00:38:00,639
to thirteen matchup seventy six forty seven. Louisville knocked off

769
00:38:01,159 --> 00:38:04,360
South Florida in a six to eleven matchup eighty three

770
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:08,280
to seventy nine, and then high point with the bracket

771
00:38:08,519 --> 00:38:14,440
busting twelve five upset eighty three eighty two. The three

772
00:38:14,599 --> 00:38:20,599
Pointers were reigning and they they took the Badgers to

773
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,320
the wire. And ended up coming out victorious with a final,

774
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,880
last second cherry picking shot. It was glorious, It was beautiful.

775
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,920
It was fantastic. So that's a little scoreboard update. We've

776
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,320
been breaking down the BYU Texas matchup as well. K

777
00:38:34,519 --> 00:38:37,039
Why sound We're gonna get more into that. Give me

778
00:38:37,079 --> 00:38:38,800
your scatting report on Texas. How do you think this

779
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,559
game plays out? Cougarnation. I'll put that out as a

780
00:38:41,679 --> 00:38:44,920
question of the day here momentarily, But k Why. This

781
00:38:45,119 --> 00:38:48,960
is what he had to say about about Sean Miller

782
00:38:49,119 --> 00:38:52,119
and AJ couple last sound bites before we move on.

783
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,840
You won k Y two Big, You beat two Big

784
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,920
twelve champs. You went toe to toe with Houston as well.

785
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,480
What do you feel about this team's identity and how

786
00:39:02,519 --> 00:39:03,840
it's grown since Kansas City.

787
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,639
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the Texas Tech game at home, the

788
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,920
last game at the Marriott Center was a massive, you know,

789
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,119
jumping off point for our team. I thought the Iowa

790
00:39:14,159 --> 00:39:16,079
State game was gonna be that, and we beat them,

791
00:39:16,119 --> 00:39:18,119
and then we uh, you know, I've been I've talked

792
00:39:18,119 --> 00:39:20,679
about how poorly we played after that, so we had

793
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,519
to find another moment. I thought the Texas Tech game

794
00:39:23,679 --> 00:39:26,280
was that moment gave us a lot of confidence going

795
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,800
into the Big Twelve Tournament. So I think the thing

796
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,800
for me that I like the most about the Big

797
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,480
Twelve Tournament was on the first night, we broke the

798
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,159
Big Twelve record, Big twelve Tournament record for points in

799
00:39:37,199 --> 00:39:38,679
a game, and then the next night we had our

800
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,599
best defensive performance of the season, and then the night

801
00:39:41,639 --> 00:39:43,920
after that, you're in a three point game in crunch

802
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,960
time against a Final four contending team. So there was

803
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,360
a lot of things. I think they gave our guys confidence,

804
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,119
and that's that's kind of what I shared with them.

805
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,000
I mean, but I don't even really have to say it.

806
00:39:55,039 --> 00:39:56,840
I think they I don't think, I know that they

807
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,960
feel it. They feel confident, they feel and they understand

808
00:40:00,119 --> 00:40:04,079
why we were able to do those things, and so

809
00:40:04,159 --> 00:40:06,639
it's easy to replicate when you know why and you're

810
00:40:06,679 --> 00:40:10,719
confident and why your season's kind of turned around.

811
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 2: There you go, that's so there's some insight from k

812
00:40:14,519 --> 00:40:16,599
why about turning the season and anything. Stand up to you,

813
00:40:16,679 --> 00:40:17,440
Hamper time show.

814
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 11: I'm so grateful man that they did what they did

815
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,400
in the Big Tell Tournament, because if not, we're sitting

816
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,880
here going, hey, Man, wouldn't it be cool if by

817
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,719
you pulled off the upset and won a game, Like

818
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,880
I know they're six seed, but it wouldn't have been

819
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,320
the upset, but it would have felt like, b why

820
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:35,280
you getting the upset?

821
00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 5: Had they won that game.

822
00:40:37,559 --> 00:40:39,199
Speaker 7: But again it comes down to what we've talked about,

823
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:42,639
like Kevin Young just seems to do his best coaching

824
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,360
when he gets to the end of the season. Now,

825
00:40:45,679 --> 00:40:48,519
small sample size, obviously it's two years, but I think

826
00:40:48,559 --> 00:40:50,880
in the NBA it's a lot different. Again, you have

827
00:40:51,039 --> 00:40:56,480
more games. You also have greater continuity from year to year.

828
00:40:57,159 --> 00:41:00,719
So maybe it's Kevin Young early and maybe it's this

829
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,440
is just how he is when he coaches college because

830
00:41:03,519 --> 00:41:06,719
he just he doesn't have a full enough grasp of

831
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:07,599
who his.

832
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,079
Speaker 5: Team is because maybe that's just not something you can do.

833
00:41:10,199 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 7: And once he gets a full grasp of who they are,

834
00:41:13,519 --> 00:41:15,960
then he figures out how to get the best out

835
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,679
of them. Like, certainly in the moment that you needed

836
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:21,639
it against some of the best competition you were gonna

837
00:41:21,639 --> 00:41:24,239
see all season. I think we probably feel like the

838
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,000
way they played Houston was probably I know that's they

839
00:41:27,119 --> 00:41:31,000
lost that game, but they have very few wins against

840
00:41:31,159 --> 00:41:33,519
like the top five ranked teams that they played this

841
00:41:33,639 --> 00:41:37,119
season that I would argue was probably the best one.

842
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 5: But either way, they're playing their best basketball right now.

843
00:41:40,519 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 7: Here's here's what's interesting though, Texas and BYU in their

844
00:41:44,519 --> 00:41:47,280
last five game or in their last ten games BYU

845
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:53,199
five and five, Texas five and five averaging seventy eight

846
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,960
point one points per game is BYU, Texas averaging seventy

847
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,639
eight point three points per game, BYU averaging thirty two rebounds,

848
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,760
Texas averaging thirty two rebounds, BYU.

849
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 5: Eleven assists, Texas eleven assists. You get the picture.

850
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 7: Like everything stat for stat in the last ten games

851
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,360
is identical. Not identical competition, mind you. However, they both

852
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,920
played in conference tournaments recently. It's gonna be really interesting

853
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,840
to see how this thing boils down. But I do

854
00:42:19,039 --> 00:42:22,119
feel like we can be confident knowing BYU is going

855
00:42:22,199 --> 00:42:24,320
to be playing their best basketball in March.

856
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 2: Aj needs to go off, in my opinion, I was

857
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:30,079
looking at single season scoring records. He's about seven points

858
00:42:30,119 --> 00:42:33,639
away from becoming the second all time single season score

859
00:42:34,679 --> 00:42:38,000
in BYU basketball history, just passing Devin Durant. Do you

860
00:42:38,039 --> 00:42:39,440
know what he'd have to do to catch Jim Er

861
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:44,719
for debt. A number that is not feasible would be

862
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,559
my guest, six games. He's got to get to the

863
00:42:46,639 --> 00:42:48,800
National Championship game, and he's got to average thirty four

864
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,559
point eight points per game, so.

865
00:42:51,679 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 7: He's probably gonna have a fifty piece in there in

866
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:54,559
order to get there.

867
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,679
Speaker 2: Well, this is the interesting thing, Like let's say somehow

868
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:03,079
someway by some sort of luck, destiny, help from the refs,

869
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,760
help from Deity, whatever, it may be sure that they

870
00:43:07,079 --> 00:43:10,400
get to the Final four and they get to a

871
00:43:10,559 --> 00:43:17,320
national championship game. The only way that you can surpass Jimmermania,

872
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,800
Because that's just to take a step back when when

873
00:43:21,119 --> 00:43:25,440
when AJ committed to b YU, we were having debates

874
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,599
with like Jonathan Taverna. I remember show, and I was like, guys, nothing,

875
00:43:29,679 --> 00:43:32,280
I was very adamant that, like I just don't see

876
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,199
it happening. It's going to be very difficult to surpass

877
00:43:34,199 --> 00:43:36,840
anything that jim Ermania built and what they did, and

878
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:41,039
the virility and the pomp and circumstance that surrounded it

879
00:43:41,199 --> 00:43:44,000
was viral before anything was actually viral, right, Like that's

880
00:43:44,039 --> 00:43:46,559
what it was, the only way you surpassed. That is

881
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:51,960
to get to probably a Final four, right, and AJ's

882
00:43:52,039 --> 00:43:55,079
going off for like thirty five points per game.

883
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 5: But that tells you how ridiculous.

884
00:43:58,159 --> 00:43:59,679
Speaker 2: But you know what I mean, Like that's kind of

885
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,960
how for me. I mean, it could be an Elite eight,

886
00:44:03,079 --> 00:44:06,280
but like I think he'd have to get I think

887
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,039
I think you'd have to get to a Final four.

888
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,000
It could be an Elite eight though, But if you're

889
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,880
averaging like thirty five points per game and you knock

890
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,199
off Perdue, you know what I mean, you knock off Oh,

891
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:18,519
we're in the Elite eight for the second time ever,

892
00:44:18,679 --> 00:44:20,440
Like you do something that's only been done twice and

893
00:44:20,519 --> 00:44:23,920
be ay basketball history and you and you got passed

894
00:44:24,679 --> 00:44:27,000
where jimmer and his squad did that was a little

895
00:44:27,039 --> 00:44:31,480
bit shorthanded as well. That may just surpass Jimmerman because

896
00:44:31,559 --> 00:44:33,960
everyone's gonna have eyes on AJ. Everyone's gonna be talking

897
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:36,280
about AJ. He's gonna be the number one overall pick.

898
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,320
He's gonna be on every show. We've already seen it,

899
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:42,239
Like you said it ten different podcasts to surpass jimmer Mania,

900
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,559
that's what you'd probably have to do. AJ would have

901
00:44:44,639 --> 00:44:47,079
to do it. Can he do it? Is he up

902
00:44:47,119 --> 00:44:49,719
to it like he's said, like he's internalized, He's like,

903
00:44:50,039 --> 00:44:52,599
I need to help my team win. I me and

904
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,000
like he needs his teammates too. But I hope he

905
00:44:56,119 --> 00:44:57,679
gets the whistles that we hope he is.

906
00:44:58,320 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 5: I hope he does.

907
00:44:59,079 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 7: I hope he Like that's just how crazy Jimmer's record is,

908
00:45:03,079 --> 00:45:06,599
like it is again, he would basically he only got

909
00:45:06,639 --> 00:45:08,920
to sweet sixteen too, he'd have to have a couple.

910
00:45:09,079 --> 00:45:12,079
And we feel like AJ has been above average when

911
00:45:12,079 --> 00:45:13,960
it turns to scoring the basketball all season.

912
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,519
Speaker 2: You know he's met quota right when you say average,

913
00:45:17,519 --> 00:45:20,280
I don't like to say anything average with AJ. Did

914
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:21,079
that mean he's.

915
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 5: Above what I would have expected?

916
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,760
Speaker 2: You know? That's why I say quota, Like he's hit.

917
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,719
He's met expectations and probably to a certain degree even

918
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,199
like overachieved per expectations, right.

919
00:45:33,159 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 7: And to me, that's like quota yeah yeah so, But

920
00:45:37,559 --> 00:45:40,920
like either way, what he's done this season has been

921
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,320
nothing short of remarkable and even still as good as

922
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:49,119
it was with let's also contextualize you're scoring more points

923
00:45:49,159 --> 00:45:51,880
in college on average than you were back when Jimmer

924
00:45:52,039 --> 00:45:56,159
was doing it, and even still AJ would have to

925
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:59,400
go off for like thirty five points a game all

926
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,000
the way through the Natty to just have a shot

927
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,199
at breaking Jimmer's record, That's that's pretty absurd. And that's

928
00:46:06,199 --> 00:46:08,880
why to me, like it is, it's it's not even

929
00:46:09,199 --> 00:46:10,679
it's comparing apples to oranges.

930
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:11,639
Speaker 5: There's no world.

931
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,519
Speaker 7: To me, AJ would have to like have two one

932
00:46:14,639 --> 00:46:17,039
hundred point games in the tournament for like him to

933
00:46:17,119 --> 00:46:19,079
beat Jim Ermania. Because the other thing you have to

934
00:46:19,119 --> 00:46:22,679
remember is like what Jimmer did was unexpected because nobody

935
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,559
knew who that kid was. Everybody knew who AJ was,

936
00:46:25,639 --> 00:46:27,840
so when Jimmer did it was like, oh my gosh.

937
00:46:28,119 --> 00:46:29,719
When AJ did it, it's like, yeah, that's what he's

938
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:31,719
supposed to do, even though it's incredibly impressive and I

939
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,000
love it in all of those things, So I don't

940
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,719
think it will ever pass your Romenia. However, I think

941
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,159
there is a world where AJ has an all time

942
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:46,760
March madness run that national media remembers and they could

943
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,960
see Perdue in that round and maybe move on, maybe

944
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:52,199
you get a rematch with Arizona.

945
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,159
Speaker 5: Who knows, But like I do think AJ is poised

946
00:46:55,199 --> 00:46:56,000
for a big march.

947
00:46:57,159 --> 00:46:59,760
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask this question Polar that he's there a

948
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:04,920
pas for b Yu and aj in which twenty twenty

949
00:47:05,079 --> 00:47:12,719
six surpasses the craziness, the the virility, the the the

950
00:47:13,119 --> 00:47:18,559
the the eyeballs, and the pomp and circumstances surrounded Jimmer media.

951
00:47:18,679 --> 00:47:20,480
Is there a path? You know what I mean? I'm

952
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,079
gonna ask that question. See what b what you fans

953
00:47:22,119 --> 00:47:22,760
have to say about it.

954
00:47:23,119 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 5: Let me, I want to ask you this question because

955
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:26,280
you remember much better than I do.

956
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:30,119
Speaker 7: But like, let's just take expectations at the beginning of

957
00:47:30,199 --> 00:47:35,000
March Madness by us, expectations like the last week or so,

958
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:37,760
not not the beginning of the season, but like the

959
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,639
last week and a half two weeks compared to what

960
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,039
Jimmers was entering the tournament.

961
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,199
Speaker 2: I mean, like like every no, it's not even close,

962
00:47:47,519 --> 00:47:50,320
Like everything that the momentum.

963
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 7: Like who had higher ex who did you expect to

964
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,400
go further in the tournament? At the start of the tournament,

965
00:47:56,519 --> 00:47:57,920
b Yu was a three seed.

966
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 2: They were three seed, like they were going to the

967
00:48:03,519 --> 00:48:07,480
Elite eight and Final four with that squad, and then

968
00:48:07,559 --> 00:48:09,840
an honor code violation occurred, and then like you know,

969
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,760
and then we had to you know, go all pharisee

970
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,400
and Sadducee on everybody, you know what I mean, like

971
00:48:15,519 --> 00:48:18,679
throw stones at people and and then force them to

972
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,840
sit on the bench as well. It's like, really that's

973
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:26,119
how we so stupid anyway, But anyway, it's neither here

974
00:48:26,199 --> 00:48:29,599
nor there. But like, no, it doesn't even hold a candle.

975
00:48:29,639 --> 00:48:32,320
Now if be like if bau Manage basketball was a

976
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,400
three seed right now or a two seed, maybe you

977
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:38,039
could compare. But Jimmermany is in it's a league of zone.

978
00:48:38,079 --> 00:48:40,400
The only way you suled pass Jimmermany is by going

979
00:48:40,599 --> 00:48:44,760
farther deeper in the tournament. In Aj is like this icon.

980
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,920
AJ and Rob become these icons for BYU and and look,

981
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:49,599
there's gonna be heroes along the way because you need

982
00:48:49,639 --> 00:48:51,719
a supporting cast. There could be a dem hero. There

983
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:54,280
could be an Alexi hero, that could be a Dominique hero,

984
00:48:54,519 --> 00:48:57,480
right like you know, you never know where these uh

985
00:48:57,559 --> 00:49:01,519
these heroes will when they'll pop up. So AJ said,

986
00:49:01,599 --> 00:49:03,239
part of his decision, this is one of the most

987
00:49:03,639 --> 00:49:06,480
you know, interesting things right that came out of the

988
00:49:06,519 --> 00:49:09,719
media availability. AJ said part of his decision to come

989
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:14,039
to BUA he was there was that the resources you

990
00:49:14,119 --> 00:49:16,719
guys had to develop him into a NBA player, not

991
00:49:17,079 --> 00:49:20,079
resources as his money. He said he had some bad habits.

992
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,440
What do you recall about those bad habits.

993
00:49:24,039 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: I think the big thing with him that I've tried

994
00:49:26,079 --> 00:49:28,239
to talk to him about a lot of it wasn't

995
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,400
even basketball related in terms of skill set stuff. It

996
00:49:31,599 --> 00:49:37,639
was approach. It was demeanor, it was body language, it

997
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:43,320
was you know, no, like just a killer mentality where

998
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:47,199
it's like you're you're He's obviously super talented. Most times

999
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,840
he's the best player on the floor. And I think

1000
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,840
sometimes early he would he would show too many reactions,

1001
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,440
and I you know, I said, hey, man, every great

1002
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,239
player I've been around, there is no reaction. They just

1003
00:49:58,280 --> 00:49:59,840
get the ball and they go get a bucket, that's

1004
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:01,239
the reaction, or they get a stop.

1005
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:02,039
Speaker 7: You know.

1006
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 1: I think there was too much looking at the ref

1007
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,599
or there was too much flailing and so forth. And

1008
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:09,880
I think he's for the most part nipped that in

1009
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:14,480
the bud. That's probably where I went with him straight away.

1010
00:50:14,519 --> 00:50:17,440
I think mid about halfway through the Big twelve slate,

1011
00:50:17,519 --> 00:50:20,280
I think he I think he either got tired, he

1012
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:21,920
just kind of hit a little bit of a wall.

1013
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,679
I said, brother, wait till you get to the NBA.

1014
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:25,519
You haven't even played it fourth of your season yet,

1015
00:50:25,559 --> 00:50:28,039
so get used to it. So I think he's still learning,

1016
00:50:28,119 --> 00:50:30,239
you know, That's where his age does show, just in

1017
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,039
terms of learning, like what it takes at the at

1018
00:50:33,079 --> 00:50:36,679
the highest of high levels. And then in terms of basketball,

1019
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:40,280
I think, you know, just he's a very good decision maker.

1020
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,920
I think sometimes he's had to learn how to do

1021
00:50:44,039 --> 00:50:46,280
it just a little bit a little bit more consistently.

1022
00:50:46,599 --> 00:50:49,039
And then kind of in that mid year slump, as

1023
00:50:49,039 --> 00:50:52,159
I call it, I thought his defensive energy there was

1024
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:54,280
a lot more to be desired, so it should we

1025
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,639
challenge him there and just taking the coaching a little

1026
00:50:58,639 --> 00:51:00,880
bit harder. Like I just one time I had to

1027
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,320
pull him aside and I said, hey, man, like when

1028
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,480
you get to the NBA, if an assistant coach tries

1029
00:51:05,559 --> 00:51:07,880
to correct something on defense, even if you think you're right,

1030
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,079
and don't say anything, just say okay, coach some little

1031
00:51:11,159 --> 00:51:13,719
things like that. But he's so coachable, like he really is.

1032
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,280
And that's the thing I probably love about on the

1033
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,920
most is he's very very coachable. He wants you to

1034
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,639
coach him hard, he allows you to coach him hard,

1035
00:51:21,679 --> 00:51:24,119
and he responds you know, to what you ask him

1036
00:51:24,119 --> 00:51:24,400
to go do.

1037
00:51:26,599 --> 00:51:29,639
Speaker 2: So AJ was looking for coaching, was looking for preparation,

1038
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,840
was looking for development. Right, there was another SoundBite. I

1039
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:34,559
sent it to you AP I do want to play

1040
00:51:34,599 --> 00:51:37,840
this as well in this segment before we move on

1041
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:42,079
to the final final comment from ky I do want

1042
00:51:42,119 --> 00:51:44,079
to play this one just because it kind of coincides

1043
00:51:44,199 --> 00:51:49,079
with with this particular commentary. No one, not many believe

1044
00:51:49,159 --> 00:51:51,599
that AJ came to BYU to be developed.

1045
00:51:52,159 --> 00:51:54,760
Speaker 5: I think most people still don't because they just believe

1046
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:55,559
what they want to believe.

1047
00:51:56,199 --> 00:52:01,079
Speaker 2: And AJ was asked a question about Nil right about

1048
00:52:01,639 --> 00:52:03,760
you know why he came to B and B B

1049
00:52:04,039 --> 00:52:09,519
YU And this was his comments from yesterday's media availability.

1050
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,079
Speaker 9: It depends on the situation on the player. In my opinion,

1051
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:14,639
a guy like me, you know, I came from a

1052
00:52:14,679 --> 00:52:17,239
great background, great parents. We always have money growing up.

1053
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,519
So for me, my ausman goes to NBA. So I

1054
00:52:19,599 --> 00:52:22,719
picked BYU because they had the resources to development. So

1055
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:24,920
I'm most NBA ready to get to the NBA. But

1056
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,599
there's a lot of people. I'm just's a situation where

1057
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,079
you know, parents might not be as you know, money

1058
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,199
or you know, some of stuff like that. So other

1059
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:33,800
people might, you know, choose the money. But if you're

1060
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,840
talking for me personally, I choose BYU because of development

1061
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:38,599
process and it wasn't really for the money.

1062
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 5: It depends on the situation.

1063
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:45,679
Speaker 2: What's interesting is everyone thinks like a AJ admittedly, he's like,

1064
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:50,039
we had money growing up. We didn't have We didn't.

1065
00:52:50,039 --> 00:52:53,599
We weren't. We weren't in we weren't destitute, we weren't

1066
00:52:53,599 --> 00:52:56,480
in poverty. We were we had money. Mam and Dad

1067
00:52:56,519 --> 00:53:00,840
are educated and you can see it, you can hear it,

1068
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:06,320
you can see it in how AJ operates and how

1069
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,559
he has operated. Does that make sense? Like, so he's like,

1070
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:13,079
it wasn't I we had money? Now was it millions

1071
00:53:13,159 --> 00:53:14,760
upon millions of I was? We don't know, we don't

1072
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:15,480
know what they're net worth?

1073
00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:16,039
Speaker 1: Is right?

1074
00:53:16,159 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 7: But I think the popular thing today is like everyone

1075
00:53:18,559 --> 00:53:20,920
wants to pretend like they came from nothing and that

1076
00:53:21,039 --> 00:53:21,920
they were hungry and.

1077
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 1: That they didn't have anything.

1078
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,280
Speaker 5: And a lot of people that is the case.

1079
00:53:24,559 --> 00:53:26,639
Speaker 7: But there's a lot of people who it's like, hey, dude,

1080
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,119
like your dad's making one hundred and fifty thousand dollars

1081
00:53:29,119 --> 00:53:31,119
when you're a kid, like you're not poor. I realized

1082
00:53:31,119 --> 00:53:32,679
that you didn't have the PS five the day it

1083
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:34,920
came out, But you're not poor. And so I really

1084
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:37,199
respect AJ for saying that I'm with you. I don't

1085
00:53:37,199 --> 00:53:39,360
think he's saying, oh, yeah, my dad made millions of dollars,

1086
00:53:39,519 --> 00:53:41,800
because I believe, if if memory serves him right, I

1087
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:43,639
believe Ace was a police officer for a while.

1088
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1089
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:45,639
Speaker 5: So I don't think they were like racking it in.

1090
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:47,559
Speaker 7: But I think what AJ's saying is like, I didn't

1091
00:53:47,599 --> 00:53:50,320
grow up hungry all the time like we My parents

1092
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:50,840
took good.

1093
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 5: Care of me.

1094
00:53:51,639 --> 00:53:51,840
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1095
00:53:52,559 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 2: And so when he goes out of his way to

1096
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:57,639
say this, and he says that I came to be

1097
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,480
with you because I wanted MBA preparation. Should I want

1098
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:02,840
to get coached up by NBA coaches? Right?

1099
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: Uh?

1100
00:54:03,599 --> 00:54:07,360
Speaker 2: And then you hear, K, why's you know? His focus

1101
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,400
has been do you want to be coachable in the NBA?

1102
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,400
Don't talk back, change your body linings? Do you want

1103
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,679
to be a goat? Like the greatest players? They don't

1104
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:19,760
get emotional, they stay stoic, they don't throw their hands up.

1105
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:24,599
Actually Lebron, Lebron does. Lebron's maybe not a good example,

1106
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:29,039
but don't be like Lebron, be like J You know

1107
00:54:29,039 --> 00:54:29,400
what I mean.

1108
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 7: There's a whole question about this media availability about Lebron, right, Like,

1109
00:54:33,679 --> 00:54:36,119
I mean, yeah, yeah, interesting.

1110
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 2: But I love the way Ky coaches and how he's

1111
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:44,639
mentored AJ. And I think we've seen we've seen progress

1112
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:48,800
from AJ in his body language throughout the season. Last

1113
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:53,280
thing from Ky. Sean Miller was asked, uh, you know

1114
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:57,519
who who? Maybe maybe AJ? Reminder as you said, he

1115
00:54:57,679 --> 00:55:00,960
really can't think of anyone, but he's kind of a

1116
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:06,840
positionless player. He did mention though, Lebron James here, let's

1117
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:09,199
get into it. Lebron James is what KA why had

1118
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:11,679
to say? Piggybacking off to Sean Miller comments.

1119
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:14,119
Speaker 1: Well, if you're going specific to Lebron, I mean, I

1120
00:55:14,159 --> 00:55:17,440
think Lebron. You know, I've had a several playoff series

1121
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,280
against Lebron, and so when you go through a playoff series,

1122
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,480
that's when you really get to know players because you're

1123
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:25,400
all the preppar all the film you watch leading up

1124
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:27,880
to the series, and then obviously in the series itself,

1125
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:29,440
and when you do it multiple years in a row,

1126
00:55:29,519 --> 00:55:31,280
you feel like you know these guys, like to back

1127
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,519
your hands. So, I mean, I think the thing that's

1128
00:55:33,559 --> 00:55:35,840
so impressive about Lebron that AJ could learn from is

1129
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:39,800
just a decision making the passing. He's just so gifted

1130
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:42,159
in that area. I think they're very similar in transition

1131
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:45,079
as well. I mean, imagine AJ when he puts on

1132
00:55:45,159 --> 00:55:47,519
about twenty some pounds of muscle on him coming down

1133
00:55:47,599 --> 00:55:49,400
hill at you like Lebron as I can promise you

1134
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:50,800
you don't want to be on the other end of that.

1135
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,760
Haven't seen it in person, but I think those are

1136
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:54,920
probably the two areas.

1137
00:55:56,800 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not a Lebron guy. I'm just not a

1138
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,079
I'm a Lebron fan. I have a tremendous amount of

1139
00:56:04,119 --> 00:56:08,239
respect for arguably the best player to ever play the game. Uh,

1140
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:12,599
but I'll take I'll take MJ and I'll take Shack.

1141
00:56:13,159 --> 00:56:17,079
I'll take them dogs over Lebron every day, every all day,

1142
00:56:17,119 --> 00:56:19,840
every day. But yeah, once he puts on twenty pounds,

1143
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,199
AJ puts on twenty pounds and he gets downhill like Lebron.

1144
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:24,719
I don't know if he'll ever be as thick as

1145
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,039
Lebron because Lebron was never that spelt.

1146
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 5: Well, and Lebron also was a specimen of a human being.

1147
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:32,559
Speaker 7: So it's like, it's not just easy to get a

1148
00:56:32,679 --> 00:56:35,400
body that looks like Lebron, and it's not easy just

1149
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:36,400
to put twenty pounds on.

1150
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm trying to find how much aj Or Lebron

1151
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:40,480
weighed when he was drafted.

1152
00:56:40,519 --> 00:56:42,760
Speaker 7: The remember they keep giving me is two forty to

1153
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:44,760
two forty five, And I'm like, but they say that

1154
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,599
now he weighs two fifty. There's no way he weighed

1155
00:56:47,599 --> 00:56:49,440
two hundred and forty pounds when he was drafted. You've

1156
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,599
seen those those pictures. I know he wore a big

1157
00:56:51,639 --> 00:56:54,239
suit when he got drafted. He was still skins more

1158
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:58,519
like two sixty five when now, Yeah, but how about you,

1159
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:00,679
there's no way he was two forty when he got drafted.

1160
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:01,599
Speaker 5: I think he was.

1161
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:03,079
Speaker 2: I think he was like two thirty.

1162
00:57:03,159 --> 00:57:05,679
Speaker 7: Oh, you're saying he just weighs so much more now,

1163
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:08,960
Like Shaq was listed at like two fifty.

1164
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,119
Speaker 2: Like that dude's four hundred pound easy.

1165
00:57:12,519 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 5: There's three hundred men of them.

1166
00:57:14,599 --> 00:57:18,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like he's three hundred and fifty coming into camp

1167
00:57:18,599 --> 00:57:21,920
and maybe gets down to three twenty during the season.

1168
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,679
I don't think there's any way Lebron's two forty, right,

1169
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:26,760
I feel like he's like to sixty five. Like that

1170
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:30,800
man's he's massive. He's a massive human anyway. Uh, that's

1171
00:57:31,079 --> 00:57:34,800
Kate Wise commentary from media availability. We'll call that a segment.

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ahead sixteen seconds left, sixty seven to sixty three. Looks

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like they are probably gonna close this out over Siena.

1181
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:12,280
McNeice is down fifty seven to sixty three. Mcneise to

1182
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Vanderbilt six thirty three left in the second half. Michigan

1183
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:18,800
State thirty one eighteen over North Dakota State with six

1184
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oh seven left in the first half. Hawaii, Uh charging back.

1185
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They're a little bit closer now, thirty eight to twenty six.

1186
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They're down to Arkansas with five twenty nine left in

1187
00:58:29,119 --> 00:58:32,000
the first and as I mentioned earlier, TCU knocks off

1188
00:58:32,079 --> 00:58:35,960
Ohio State sixty six, sixty four in that nine to

1189
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:40,719
eight matchup. Troy got demolished by Nebraska that four thirteen

1190
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:43,920
matchup and he was seventy six forty seven. And then

1191
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:46,880
Louisville knocked off South Florida in the six to eleven

1192
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:51,159
match up in that first round I believe West Region

1193
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:55,119
sorry East Region game. And then the bracketbuster of the day,

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00:58:55,519 --> 00:58:57,840
High Point knocking